Vehicle-axle.



No. 7|6,073. Patented Dec. l6, I902.

- M. B. LLOYD.

VEHICLE AXLE.

(Application filed May 20, 1902.]

(No Model.)

0-441, ha a orwqys UNITED STATES PATENT @EEICE.

MARSHALL B. LLOYD,',OF MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA.

VEHIC LE-AX LE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 716,073, dat d D b 16, 1902. Application filed May 20,1902. Serial No. 108,161. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern."

Be it known that I, MARSHALL B. LLOYD, of Minneapolis, Hennepin county, Minnesota, have invented certain new and usefullmprovements in Axles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in axles, and particularly to axles designed for use upon boys wagons or similar light ve hicles.

The invention consists generally in an Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of same. Fig. 3 is a transverse section on line 3 3 of Fig. 2..

Fig. 4 is a transverse section on line 4. 4 of Fig. 2.

In the drawings, 2 represents a suitable rod provided at each end with a ring or collar 3. This is preferably integral with the rod, and it is preferably formed by making a head similar to a rivet-head on each end of the rod. A suitable truss 5 of arched form preferably extends lengthwise of the rod 2,

and its ends are madecylindrical and clasp the rod 2, and thus form the bearing-surface at each end of the axle. The end of the truss abuts against the collar or head 3 at the end a of the axle, which forms a solid stop for-the truss. A suitable ring or collar 7 is slipped over the cylindrical part of the truss and forms an abutting ring for the inner end of the wheel-hub. I prefer to provide the truss with the partially-projecting cylindrical stud 9, which forms the center or pivot for the bolster of the vehicle. I also prefer to provide a second truss 11, arranged beneath the central portion of the truss 5 and suitably riveted thereto and having its ends extending downwardly and provided with openings through which the rod 2 extends. A loop 13 is preferably connected to the truss 11 and is provided at its ends with suitable hooks 15, adapted to engage the vehicle and the tongue, which may be of any suitable construction.

The advantages of this construction are that the heads or collars at the ends of the axle form solid stops for the truss 5, thus providing a very strong and durable axle at a minim um cost, as this construction permits of the use of a small rod and a truss formed of light sheet metal.

The details of the construction may be varied in many particulars without departing from my invention. For instance, if preferred, the cylindrical portion of the truss may be made independently of the other portion, in which case the operation will not be different from that already shown and described, as the end of the arched part of the truss will bear against the inner end of the cylindrical portion, while the outer end of the cylindrical portion bears against the head or collar 3.

I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. The combination, in an axle, with a suitable rod, of a metallic truss arranged above said axle, and having its ends of cylindrical form surrounding said rod, substantially as described.

2. The combination, in an axle, with a suitable rod, of a sheetmetal truss arranged above said rod, and having cylindrical ends surrounding said rod.

3. The combination, in an axle, withasuitable rod, provided at its ends with fixed heads or collars, a suitable truss arranged above said rod and having cylindrical ends sur-- rounding said rod and abutting against said heads or collars, substantially as described.

4. The combination, with the rod 2, provided with the heads or collars 3, of the sheetmetal truss 5, having cylindrical end portions surrounding the ends of said-rodandabutting against said heads or collars 3, substantially as described.

5. The combination, withthe-rod 2,.provided with the fixed heads or collars 3 at its ends, of the sheet-metal truss 5, having cylindrieal end portions surrounding said rod portion of said truss 5 and engaging said rod,

and abutting against said heads or collars 3 substantially as described. IO and rings 7 surrounding the cylindrical por- In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my tions of said truss. hand this 10th day of May, 1902.

6. The combination, with the rod 2, of the MARSHALL B. LLOYD. sheet-metal truss 5, having cylindrical end Inv presence ofportions surrounding said rod, and an auxiL A. 0. PAUL,

iary truss ll-arranged beneath the central O. G. HANSON. 

